Published date: 11 June 2019

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 22 April 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Survey vessels - 34513550

  • Specialised boats - 34521000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£296,667

Procurement reference

Award - EW/UoP/Autonomous_Vessel/011/019

Published date

11 June 2019

Closing date

22 April 2019

Contract start date

21 May 2019

Contract end date

31 October 2019

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

As a delivery partner of the Marine Business Technology Centre (MBTC), the University of Plymouth (UoP) will procure one unmanned surface vessel (USV) to deliver collaborative research, development and innovation activities with Devon-based SME companies. This asset will be a new collaborative platform for the university's academic and technical expertise in: marine sensing, survey, naval architecture, advanced materials, environmental assessment, marine physics, marine biology, navigation and cyber security.
As such, the USV will be the tool with which the UoP Specialist Technician can undertake sea trials and various collaborative validation and development activities for new products and services (e.g. marine monitoring instruments) with project beneficiaries. Key to the requirement is a defined interchangeable dry and wet payload. This will enable the university to offer defined measurement limits to accommodate hardware and allow for interchangeable payloads between trials. The degree of 'autonomy' the USV has must range from full remote piloting through to fully autonomous operation.
In addition, the USV will be capable of forming part of an autonomous 'system of systems', i.e. be able to interact and collaborate with other unmanned systems as part of a nonhomogeneous surface and sub-surface fleet.

This is a European Regional Funded project.

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More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Autonomous Vessel

  • Opportunity
  • Published 25 March 2019

Award information

Awarded date

24 May 2019

Contract start date

1 July 2019

Contract end date

30 June 2020

Total value of contract

£296,310

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Autonomous Surface Vehicles Ltd

Address

Portchester
PO16 9RD
United Kingdom

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Drake Circus
PLYMOUTH
PL48AA
England

Telephone

01752 582057

Email

procurement@plymouth.ac.uk

Website

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/plymouthuni